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1 First of all, from the home screen, open the Settings app and navigate to General. At the bottom of the screen you see an option called Reset. Tap it for the Reset menu. 2 From the Reset menu, tap the link titled’ Erase All Content and Settings’. You’re shown a menu inviting you to back up before erasing; do so if you wish, otherwise, just erase. 3 Enter the passcode, tap Erase iPhone and then again to confirm, then enter the Apple ID. You might need to get these from the phone’s previous owner. Your iPhone is then wiped.…

Setting up your Apple ID on your iPhone 8 If you don’t have an Apple ID, follow this guide. If you already have one but haven’t set it up on your iPhone yet, just enter your iCloud email address on the screen you reach in the first step, then skip the rest of this tutorial. 1 Open the Settings application from your iPhone’s Home screen and scroll to the top of the left-hand column. Tap the ‘Sign in to your iPhone’ option right at the top of the list, then in the pop-up window, tap ‘Don’t have an Apple ID or forgot it?’. 2 Tap ‘Create Apple ID’ in the next window and then, when instructed, enter your date of birth. This then takes you to a new screen, where…

Understanding the main features of the keyboard From opening the keyboard itself, using emojis and symbols and using your voice to input your text instead of typing, we show you how to unlock the excellent range of features that the iPhone’s virtual keyboard has to offer. 1 Accessing the keyboard is achieved by tapping any area of the screen where you can type text, such as the Safari search bar, a note in the Notes app or a blank email. 2 Once you have accessed the keyboard, you can enter your text by simply tapping on the keys as you would on any similar typing device. It’s really easy and intuitive to use. 3 To add digits and punctuation to your text, just tap the 123 key located on the…

1 To listen to your Voicemail messages, tap the Phone app and click Voicemail at the bottom of the screen, then tap Call Voicemail. A call is made to your voicemail service. 2 If you want to passcode protect your voicemail messages, go to Settings > Phone and scroll down to the Change Voicemail Password link. You can then set a passcode. 3 To customise your message, tap the Voicemail button. If there’s a Greeting link on the next screen, follow it. If not, listen to your voice mails and follow the recorded instructions.…

Safari in Focus 1 This is your URL and search field. Type a web address here to go to its page or type a search term to search the worldwide web for pages on that subject. 2 Tapping the curly arrow here reloads the page you’re currently looking at. It’s useful if a page hasn’t loaded correctly or if it needs updating, such as a news page. 3 This is a text field. Tap here, or indeed anywhere on the screen where text can be entered, and the the iPhone’s virtual keyboard appears at the bottom of the screen to allow you to type. 4 A web page can contain words, pictures, videos and more. Tapping a link on a web page, such as the pictures here, to go to…

Optical Zoom The optical zoom works on any iPhone with twin cameras on the rear, which at the time of writing, is the iPhone 8 Plus and the iPhone 7 Plus. You can use it alongside the iPhone’s regular digital zoom too. Here’s how. 1 Open the Camera app and choose your option from the slider at the foot of the screen. The optical zoom feature works with all photography options except for Portrait and as you can see, there’s an icon that reads ‘1x’ at the foot of the viewer. 2 The ‘1x’ icon means the photo is to be taken at actual size, without being zoomed in at all. Tap this icon and it changes to ‘2x’, showing the subject is now twice as close in the photograph;…

Contacts in Focus 1 Tap this link to go back to your list of contacts, which are arranged in alphabetical order. 2 Tap Edit to add, remove or change information on the contact card. You can add things like birthdays, social media addresses and more, as well as further information such as phone numbers, street addresses and more. 3 The name and picture of your currently open contact. If you don’t yet have a picture here, the person’s initials on a grey background are shown instead. 4 These icons let you communicate with your contact directly from the Contacts app. Tap an icon to send a message, make a call, make a video call or send an email. If the icon is greyed, this means that feature is currently unavailable.…

Maps in Focus 1 Tap the ‘i’ for the Maps Settings pop-up window, where you can switch between a normal, Transport or Satellite view, mark your location, add a feature or report an issue. 2 Tap this arrow icon to focus the map on your current location. Tap it again and the map rotates as you move, so the direction your travelling is always ‘up’. 3 The blue dot is your current location. The smaller the blue circle around it, the more accurate this location placement is. 4 Tap here and type a search term to look for a location or a nearby feature. Tap the Search field, without typing anything, and four icons appear: Food & Drink, Shopping, Fun and Travel. Tap one for more specific options, as we’ve…

1 Upon opening the Weather application for the first time you’re asked whether you want to allow the app to use your Current Location. You can allow it only when you’re using the app, never allow it or always allow it. Allowing Weather to use your location means that you get weather information for your current whereabouts. 2 When your location has been accessed, your whereabouts is displayed on the screen, giving you a brief description of the current weather and the temperature. Below this you can also see an hourly breakdown of the weather (which can be scrolled left and right), and a short summary of the forecast for the next few days. 3 Add additional locations by tapping the three horizontal lines in the bottom right, tapping the…

iBooks in Focus 1 Tap the chevron to close the currently open book and go back to your library. 2 This icon gives you access to the book’s contents and also any bookmarks and notes you made whilst reading it. 3 Tap here for a pop-up window to enlarge or reduce the font size, change the font, adjust the screen brightness, change the colour of the page, set the text to scroll up and down rather than turn like the pages of a physical book and use the automatic Night Theme option. 4 Tap here to search for a word, phrase or page number in the book you currently have open. 5 Tap here to place or remove a bookmark. The book remains open at the last page you read…

iTunes in Focus 1 Tap here for a pop-up window that lets you filter the music offered according to its genre. Available genres include Blues, Classical, Country, jazz, metal and more. Choose the Tones option to filter available ringtones by genre. 2 Tap the Featured tab to see what’s hot, what’s new and more. The Charts tab is a guide to the best-selling songs, albums and music videos. 3 Tap here for your wish list, a list of songs you’ve identified using Siri (see the Siri guide for more details) and a list of tracks you listened to as previews. 4 Scroll this line of albums left and right for more options, or tap See All to open the New Music page in full screen. There’s often a See All…

An introduction to iCloud Drive iCloud Drive lets you save documents from applications such as Pages and Numbers to the cloud, instead of directly to your iPhone or Mac. This means you can access them from any of your Apple devices, and even from a web browser. 1 In the Settings app, tap your name at the top of the screen, tap iCloud and scroll down to iCloud Drive. If it isn’t on already, turn it on. You can now save your files in the cloud and access them from any Internet device. 2 Open the Files app and under Locations, tap iCloud Drive. Here you see the files stored on your iCloud Drive, arranged by their apps. iCloud Drive is also accessible through other Apple devices, and www.icloud.com. 3…

1 To use a photo with your iCloud account, go to Settings > [your name] and tap the grey circle at the top. Take a photo or add one from your Photos library. If you don’t have one yet, just leave it; you can come back and take or add one whenever you choose. 2 Two-Factor Authentication demands verification from one of your other Apple devices when you sign on using a new device for the first time. It guards against account theft if someone has somehow got hold of your Apple ID’s password, so we recommend you use it. 3 After signing in, you must enter the passcode for your iPhone. If you haven’t yet set one, you have to do so now and also verify your identity, with…

How to activate and speak to Siri Siri is only ever a couple of clicks away, and these simple steps show you how easy it is to have the Siri assistant start working for you on your iPhone. What should you ask it first though? Here are a few tips to get you started with Siri. 1 To open Siri, hold down the Home button and Siri will quickly spring to life to see how it can help you. You hear two beeps and this screen appears. 2 Begin speaking and the coloured icon morphs into a line to let you know that Siri can hear you. If it doesn’t, tap it to talk to Siri again. 3 When your device is on charge, but still in earshot, you can…

Accessing and using the app-switching screen You get to reach the app-switching screen by quickly double-tapping the Home button, or by swiping up from the bottom of the screen. It shows all the apps you have open on your iPhone and allows you to switch between them. 1 This is the multitasking screen. All the apps you have open on your iPhone are shown here. Swipe left and right to scroll through them and tap a specific app to open it. The icons and app names are now shown at the top. 2 Now, as well as switching between open apps without going through the Home screen, you can also close an app by dragging it upwards, off the top of the screen. This is especially useful if an app…

1 Press on an email and you can preview it without actually opening it. Press a little harder and it opens in the usual way. 2 It works for websites too. A light press on a link previews the site, while a heavier press then opens it up in the Safari web browser. 3 To review your photos while you’re still using the Camera app, press the thumbnail. Press a little harder to open it. 4 Deep press on a phone number and several options are offered. You can ring it, message it or add it to your Contacts app 5 Press a Home screen icon and you’re offered shortcuts that take you directly to regularly used features of that app. 6 You can review contact info too. Press on…

How to change your iPhone 8’s Home screen This guide teaches you how to swap the image shown on your iPhone’s Home screen and also the Lock Screen with just a few taps. You can give your Home screen and lock page a whole new look, making your iPhone fresh and new. 1 To customise your screen, open the Settings app, via the Home screen, and tap on the Wallpaper link. From this screen tap on the Choose a New Wallpaper link. It’s found above the two images featuring the wallpaper currently in use on the iPhone’s Lock and Home screens. 2 When you see this screen, select Dynamic, Stills, Live, or even one of your photos from the Photos app. Select the wallpapers you want to use on your…

Downloading and updating iOS When an update to iOS has become available, you should follow these simple steps to update the version of the operating system that’s running on your own phone. It’s a straightforward process but may take a while to carry out. 1 To check for a new version of iOS, first of all open the Settings app from the Home screen. It’s the silver-coloured icon showing a series of cogs. From the next screen, scroll up until you see the General link, then tap it. 2 In General, tap Software Update. Your iPhone checks with Apple to see if there is a newer version than the one you’re running. If there isn’t, you’re told you’re up to date but if there is, you can install it now.…

The iPhone X Apple’s newest iPhone lacks a Home button but its other controls are very similar to previous generations of iPhone. The screen runs all the way from the top to the bottom of the iPhone X, making it longer than before too. The iPhone 8 The iPhone 8 is a more traditional iPhone, in that it has a bezel surrounding the screen, a black border at the top and bottom and a Home button to unlock the phone. It also comes in two sizes, the iPhone 8 and iPhone 8 Plus. The Lightning Connector. Current iPhones use a Lightning connector for charging, syncing, and (on the latest iPhones) for connecting cabled earbuds using an adapter. The iPhone 8 Plus. The iPhone 8 comes in two sizes, the regular…

1 Make sure you have both phones handy and they’re charged. If you’re keeping your existing SIM, transfer it to your new phone now. 2 After selecting your country or region, you’ll see this screen. Now you should unlock your old phone and move it near your new one. 3 On the old phone, this pop-up appears. Press Continue. Settings for Touch ID/Face ID aren’t transferred; set them up now or later. 4 Frame the blue swirl in the camera viewer on your old phone. Input your passcode on your new phone, then continue on it. 5 When your Apple ID is set up on your new iPhone (Internet connection required), you’re asked to type in your Apple ID password. 6 You can restore apps, data and settings from an…

Setting up Touch ID Setting up your Touch ID is a fairly straightforward process but it takes a little time to register a fingerprint. Follow these instructions and you should soon be up and running with Touch ID, and you can add more fingerprints later if you wish. 1 Open the Settings app and scroll down the list of apps and features until you get to the one called Touch ID & Passcode. Tap it to open these settings. 2 If you’ve set up a passcode on your iPhone, whether four-digit, six-digit or alphanumeric, you must enter it now to get to the main Touch ID settings screen. 3 Tap the Add a Fingerprint link to start registering your fingerprint to your Touch ID. We deal with the other settings…

Control Centre in Focus 1 In this box, you can turn on and off (clockwise, from top left) Airplane Mode, Mobile Data, Bluetooth and Wi-Fi. If you have 3D Touch, deep press the main box for a larger version, which also offers AirDrop and Personal Hotspot icons. 2 This box shows you what music you’re currently playing. In this case, we’re not playing anything, so we just see the default controls. Deep press for more options, including volume control and the means to play through external speakers. 3 Tap here to lock the screen in its current orientation, so it doesn’t switch between landscape and portrait mode when you turn the iPhone. Tap again to unlock it once more. 4 Tap here to activate and deactivate the iPhone’s Do Not…

Joining a Wi-Fi network These days almost everyone has a Wi-Fi network. It’s easy to get your iPhone on your home network and also on Wi-Fi public hotspots when out and about. Here’s how to take your iPhone onto the Internet for web surfing, email and more. 1 To activate Wi-Fi on your iPhone go to Settings > Wi-Fi and turn it on. The iPhone then searches for all networks in range. If at home, pick your home network and enter the security details to be allowed access. 2 If you are at a public hotspot that has no security, you can just connect. If it’s password protected, which is far more likely, you need to get the account details from whoever is providing the Wi-Fi service. 3 From now…

Mail in Focus 1 This screen shows your Inbox. Tap the Mailbox link here to go back and choose another mailboxs, such as Drafts, Sent, Junk and your VIP emails. 2 This link usually says ‘Edit’, a function we talk about later, but as we’ve swiped an email to the left, revealing the More, Flag and Delete icons, it says ‘Done’; tapping it cancels and closes the swipe. 3 These are your emails, listed in the order they arrived. Tap on one to open and read it. Emails with blue dots to their left are have not yet been opened and read. Pull down on the screen to get new mail. 4 Tap here to search your emails. You can type a name, a subject or something from the body…

Messages in Focus 1 Tap here to take you back to the list of message conversations, listed according to whom they’re with. Tap one to open that particular conversation, such as the chat you see here. 2 This is the person with whom you’re conversing. The picture is drawn from your Contacts app and is replaced by an initial if it’s not available. Tap this pic to open their contact card. 3 Tap here for information on the person you’re talking to, including images and attachments sent by them, and links to send them your current location, share your location and also their contact information. 4 The day, date and time your message was sent appears above the message bubble. If a handful of messages were sent in a short…

Photos in Focus 1 Tap here to take you back to the Albums screen, from where you can select an album to open and view. 2 This is the title of the album you’re looking at. 3 Tap the Select link and then tap any photograph thumbnails on the main screen; they get a tick in the bottom right corner. Then share the selected photos using the Share icon or add them to another album with the Add link; both of which appear at the bottom of the screen after selecting photos. 4 This is the name of the Photos album you have open now and the dates between which the photographs were all taken. 5 Tap here to open the current album as a Memories page. The Memories page…

FaceTime system requirements To use FaceTime you need an Apple ID, an Internet connection and a contact who also has FaceTime enabled on a Mac, iPhone, iPod touch or iPad. Macs must, of course, have a built-in webcam or external camera attached. 1 You can make a FaceTime call directly from its own app, by using your Contacts app or (as shown here) through the Phone app. Just find the contact you wish to FaceTime with and open their page. 2 Press the FaceTime camera link at the top of the contact card to place a video call. Alternatively, select the FaceTime phone icon further down, listed under ‘FaceTime’, to place an audio-only FaceTime call. 3 You may have to wait a moment until the call is answered and then…

Calendar in Focus 1 Tap this link to go back to the month view, showing the whole of (in this case) the month of October. 2 Here you see the days of the month, with the currently displayed day highlighted. So here we’re looking at 28th October. 3 This icon gives you a list of upcoming events, which are displayed according to their date. 4 Tap here to search the Calendar app, looking at titles and content information in your calendar entries. A search also looks through notes you’ve added to an event, which is very useful if you keep them relevant. 5 Tap here to create a new calendar event. You get to set the date, time and title, as well as whether it repeats (for example, with birthdays…

Music in Focus 1 This is the main page of the Apple Music service, where albums and artists tailored to your tastes are suggested for your listening. 2 Tap here to see your account details. You can change your username to a specific Music app nickname, choose more of your favourite artists and more. 3 A playlist built around a mix of sounds Apple Music thinks you might like. Tap it to play. You can scroll the page to see more playlists, suggested artists, recently played music and more. 4 The mini-player shows the track you’re currently playing. You can tap it to expand it to full-screen size, with all the usual audio controls available. 5 You can use the skip and pause/play controls here without opening the full player.…

Setting alarms 1 Tap the Alarm tab at the bottom of the clock screen to start editing your alarms. To set a new alarm, use the ‘+’ icon (top right). This opens an Add Alarm window. Use the two wheels to pick a time for the alarm to sound. You can also choose which days the alarm plays, the sound, whether it can be snoozed and what it’s called. When you’ve set an alarm, an alarm clock icon appears at the top of the Home screen to show that it’s active. 2 You can set an alarm to repeat at the same time on specific days of the week or never repeat. To turn each alarm on or off independently, tap the On/ Off button. Alternatively you can remove or…

Using iTunes, you can buy albums or individual tracks and play them on your iPhone. Here’s a guide to buying and downloading. 1 Find the album or song you want and tap on it. You can see a review if available. When looking at a complete album, a track list is also shown. From here, you can tap the price at the top, for the whole album or an individual track’s price to buy a song. 2 If asked to sign in with your Apple ID, do so. The album or track is then downloaded to your Music app, from where you can play it on your iPhone. For more reviews of that album, tap the Reviews tab. For more by that artist or similar music, tap the Related tab,…

iCloud Drive comes with 5GB of free storage space, but if this isn’t enough for your needs, you can buy more storage on a monthly subscription. It’s inexpensive and if you decide at a later date you don’t need it, you can downgrade. 1 Open the Settings app, tap your name at the top of the screen, then tap iCloud. Tap Manage Storage. You’re told what iCloud storage plan you’re on. If you want to change your plan, tap the Change link. 2 A window shows your current plan and other available options. You get 5GB free of charge, but if you want more, there are plenty of paid-for plans that increase your total storage space for a set monthly fee. 3 If you find you have more storage than…

Setting up Do Not Disturb There are times when you won’t be able to take calls and for these times, this guide to the iPhone’s Do Not Disturb feature is invaluable. If you need to silence your phone for a while, for safety or peace and quiet, this is how you do it. 1 Open Settings and tap on Do Not Disturb. From here, you can switch Do Not Disturb on manually or set it to automatically turn on and off according to a preset schedule that you can set up for your requirements. Switch on the Scheduled option if you wish to do this. 2 To change the times, after turning on the Scheduled button, use the from/to time link that appears underneath it. Then tap From and use…

Using the Notification Centre Before delving deeper into the functionality of the Notification Centre, let’s go through the process of accessing and viewing your notifications themselves. It’s amazing how much information is at your fingertips with your iPhone. 1 Since it serves as your reminders and communication hub on your iPhone, you can access the Notification Centre quickly and easily at any time, no matter which app you’re in, simply by swiping your finger down from the top. 2 The Notification Centre is pulled into view and you can see all your current notifications. To instantly act on any notification in the list, just tap on it. This takes you directly to the app that sent out the notification, in this case, Maps. 3 To clear a single notification, swipe…

Using AirDrop for file transfer AirDrop is a great way to transfer files between Apple devices, including Macs as well as iPads, iPhones and iPod touches. Here’s a guide to setting up and using AirDrop on your iPhone with iOS 11, and using it to transfer files. 1 Go to Settings > General > AirDrop and you can turn AirDrop off completely, allow AirDrop sharing only with people in your Contacts app, or share with anyone. For security reasons, if you share with anyone, you have to accept an incoming AirDrop file. 2 Now select the file you wish to share, whether it’s an image, a Safari link or a document. Tap the Share icon, the square with the up-pointing arrow. The AirDrop option is in the top row of…

1 On this page, we have the iWork and iLife apps and also iTunes U. Let’s bring them together into a single folder, greatly reducing the amount of space they take up on the Home screen. 2 First of all, tap and hold on one of the app icons on the Home page. Any one will do. After a few seconds, the apps start to wobble and display an X in the top-left. Lift your finger now. 3 Drag one of the apps you want to put in the new folder onto another app that will live in the folder. When a border appears around them as shown, let go. A new folder is formed. 4 The screen now shows the new folder, with the two apps inside. It’s automatically…

How to change your iPhone 8’s default ringtone Everyone has a mobile phone and it can get confusing as to whose phone is ringing when you’re in a crowd. This guide changes all that. We show you how to change your own phone’s ringtone to a preinstalled or custom tone. 1 From the Home screen tap the Settings icon and scroll down to the Sounds option. Tap this link and scroll down to the Sounds section to see your list of options. You can select to change your ringtone and a number of your alert tones from this list. 2 You can change the sound effects for all your key app alerts, such as the ringtone and text tones. Simply tap the alert sound link you wish to change to…

Initial setup and integration First of all, check you have the Find My iPhone application on your Home screen. You probably do, but if you don’t, find it on the App Store and download it. It’s free and definitely worth having for peace of mind. 1 Go to Settings > [your name] > iCloud and make sure Find My iPhone is switched on. If it isn’t, tap the Find My iPhone link and turn it on now. 2 Tap the Find My iPhone application to go to this log in screen. Enter your Apple ID and password to sign in, and allow it to use your location. 3 You can see all iOS devices linked to your Apple ID. A green display to the left of the name indicates the…

Solving issues with hardware Are you having trouble making a call or sending a text? Perhaps you’re struggling to get your phone to connect to the Internet? Here’s a step-by-step guide to troubleshooting all sorts of iPhone issues. Restarting the iPhone. If you notice minor problems with your iPhone, apps closing for no reason, button lag, etc., you should try restarting it before you try anything else. Hold down the Sleep/Wake button until the red slider appears and turn the phone off. Wait for 30 seconds and then press and hold the Sleep/Wake button to turn it back on. Sleep/Wake button. If the Sleep/Wake button does not seem to be working as it should, you should first try resetting the iPhone. Press and hold the Sleep/Wake button for a few…

Inserting your Nano-SIM card Your Nano-SIM card, although very small, gives you access to the entire world! Without it your iPhone cannot function as a phone at all, so you need to make sure you insert your Nano-SIM correctly. Here’s how to do it. 1 In order to activate your iPhone, you must first insert the Nano-SIM card provided by your mobile phone network provider. To do this, follow these steps. 2 Use a SIM eject tool like the one pictured here, or maybe a straightened paper clip, and insert it into the small hole next to the SIM slot. The tray then pops out as shown. 3 Place the SIM card in the tray (there’s only one way it can go in) and slide the tray back in the…

1 On your Mac or PC, open the iTunes app. Make sure you have the latest version of iTunes; if you haven’t, update it now. Connect your iPhone to your computer using a Lightning cable and click the iPhone button when it appears. This screen welcomes you to your new iPhone 8 or iPhone 8 Plus, assuming it has not yet been set up. 2 You can choose whether to restore your iPhone using a previous iTunes backup or set it up as a completely new phone. To set up using an iTunes backup, previously made to your Mac or PC, choose the backup from the drop-down menu, as shown. If you’re transferring to a new phone and don’t have a recent backup of the old one, back up again…

Touchscreen actions The iPhone 8’s touchscreen is incredibly versatile, and it supports a wide range of multi-touch gestures. Here we show you how these gestures are used, and how you can interact with your amazing phone using the screen and your fingers. Touch The touchscreen is sensitive to the tiny electrical charges in our bodies. This means you only have to tap the screen, not press down hard with your finger. To activate items on the screen such as applications and settings icons, type letters and symbols using the on-screen keyboard, or to press on-screen buttons, you simply (gently) touch them with your finger. Touch and hold Touch and hold is useful in a number of different situations. You can touch and hold an item on the screen by touching…

Dialling a number from the keypad Even though it doesn’t have physical number buttons, it’s easy to dial a telephone number on your iPhone 8’s screen. Here’s a guide to opening the number pad, adding numbers to Contacts, making telephone calls, and more. 1 Tap the Phone app icon and then select the keypad link from the five options at the bottom of the screen. Enter the phone number by tapping the on-screen digits; the number is shown as you enter it. 2 If this number is important and is likely to be used often, before you go any further tap the Add Number link found under the phone number to add it to your contacts list. If not, tap the green button to make the call. 3 The call…

Setting up accounts in iOS 11. For web-based email services such as Gmail, the iPhone automatically enters most of the settings needed for you to access your account. It can be a little complicated when setting up accounts from your Internet service provider but this guide should help. Setting up an iCloud email account As you would expect, setting up Apple’s iCloud email on your iPhone is simplicity itself. You just input your Apple ID and your password and it’s all set up automatically. If you haven’t done so during the iPhone setup process, this is how. 1 Tap the Settings icon and scroll down and tap Accounts & Passwords. From here tap Add Account. Tap on the iCloud link and enter your Apple ID and Password. If you don’t…

1 Tap and hold in the body of an email message until a bubble appears. Tap the right chevron to find the Insert Photo or Video option. You can do this with any email you’re sending, whether it’s a new one, a reply or one you’re forwarding. 2 Tap Insert Photo or Video to be taken to the Photos app. Navigate to the album containing the photo, photos or indeed the video you wish to attach to your email, and tap the thumbnail image of it. The picture or video opens so you can see a larger version. 3 Tap Choose and you attach it to the email message. You can repeat Steps 1-3 and add more. Type a message above or below the attachment if you wish. Just tap…

Camera in Focus 1 Tap the flash icon and you can opt to set the flash to activate automatically when light is low, switch it on so it always flashes or switch it off so it doesn’t flash, regardless of whether it’s dark when taking the photo. 2 HDR stands for High Dynamic Range. It works by taking several photos at different exposures in a short burst and then combining them into a single image. Tap this icon to set the HDR feature to auto, on or off, as you do for the flash. 3 A live photo adds a few seconds of video to the still photo image, giving it a mildly animated feel. Tap this icon to toggle the Live Photo feature on and off. 4 This is…

Notes in Focus 1 Tap this chevron to go back to the folder containing the currently open note. As you can see, that’s the iCloud folder, which is synced across your Apple devices, including your iPhone. 2 At the top of a note, you can see the date and time when the note in question was last edited. 3 Tap here to invite a person or people to collaborate on a note. The tick means it’s already shared with at least one person. 4 The ubiquitous iOS Sharing icon. Tap it for a pop-up offering various sharing options. 5 A range of typographic options are available in Notes. You can underline, bold and italicise text, turn it into a title or heading, justify it right, left or centre and more.…

Reminders in Focus 1 This is the name of the Reminders list you’re currently looking at. Tap it to see all your lists laid out. On that screen, you can tap a list to open it or the plus sign to start a new list. 2 This is the number of uncompleted reminders you currently have in your list. 3 When entering a new reminder, this link reads Done, as it does now. Tap it to hide the keyboard and return to the reminders list. When you’re not typing, this link reads Edit instead of Done. Tap it and you can change the name and colour of the list’s title, share the list with others, delete current reminders and drag them up and down the list to reorder. 4 Each…

News in Focus 1 Today’s date, which is always important on a digital news app. 2 The current temperature at your present location is offered here. It’s supplied by The Weather Channel, as you can see if you tap it. 3 This is For You, the News app’s main page, offering you stories based on the topics and sources you chose when you set the app up. Scroll for top stories, trending stories and more that might be of interest. 4 You can use the Share icon to share an individual news item, post it to social media sites, add it to Reminders or Notes, love or dislike it and more. 5 Your individual stories are chosen for you according to your favourite sources and subjects. Each story has a…

Setting and viewing videos via the TV app The Apple TV app allows you to browse and view content from a host of video providers as well as Apple themselves. Here you will find all your video purchases, access to linked video apps and even discover your new favourites. 1 Upon opening the app for the first time you will arrive on the Watch Now home screen; notice that the Up Next section is currently blank. This is empty as you will need to manually add movies or TV shows here later on. 2 Before we start, you are going to need to download the apps that are linked to the Apple TV, or your options are limited. Click the Store link at the bottom of the screen, scroll to…

App Store in Focus 1 The App Store’s new Today screen gives you the pick of the best of the new releases, chosen every day by Apple’s editors. 2 Tap here to get to your account details. From there, you can redeem a card, send an app as a gift, check on the apps you’ve previously purchased or sign out of the App Store. 3 These are the apps chosen by Apple’s editors as the choice of the day. Tap one for information on that particular app. 4 Tap here to get to the Today screen, as seen here. The Today screen is a great way of finding out what’s new and exciting on the App Store, so you will probably want to visit it often. 5 The App Store’s…

Creating an Apple ID If you already have an Apple ID and have it set up on your iPhone, you can skip the first part of this tutorial altogether. Go straight to the next page and see how you can customise your iCloud account to your specific requirements. 1 Open Settings and at the top, tap the ‘Sign in to your iPhone’ link. You get a pop-up window inviting you to sign in. If you have an Apple ID, do so. If you don’t have one, or you’ve forgotten your details, tap ‘Don’t have an Apple ID or forgot it?’ 2 On the next screen, tap Create Apple ID or Forgot Apple ID? as appropriate. If you have an Apple ID but forgotten your details, follow the instructions to have…

1 Do Not Disturb While Driving is new for iOS 11. You can have this activate manually only; when your phone is connected to in-car Bluetooth devices; or automatically, so the phone detects when it’s in a car based on movement. 2 You can add an extra option for Do Not Disturb While Driving to Control Centre. This is ideal for if it automatically activates when you’re a passenger in a car, and want to use your phone. See our Control Centre tutorial for details. Using the Control Centre. You can activate Do Not Disturb from Control Centre. Swipe up from the bottom of the screen to reveal the Control Centre and tap the Do Not Disturb icon (the moon) to turn the feature on and off.…

The new iPhone 8 Lock Screen On the Lock Screen, you can get information such as your next Calendar appointment on app widgets; or access the Camera app and take a quick shot without unlocking your iPhone. Here’s how to use the iOS 11 Lock Screen. 1 Swipe right from the Lock Screen or the Home screen to access the Widgets screen. Tap Show More in the corner of a Widget to expand it within the Widgets screen, offering more information. Show Less shrinks it again, returning it to its previous state 2 Scroll all the way down the Widgets screen to the Edit button and tap it go to the Add Widgets screen, after logging in. Reorder widgets by dragging the three-line icons, add more with the plus buttons…

Pairing and unpairing with Bluetooth To pair a device with Bluetooth, switch on the Bluetooth device you want to connect to your iPhone, then follow the instructions supplied with it to put the device into its pairing mode. Then follow this guide on your iPhone. 1 Make sure Bluetooth is turned on. To do this, go to Settings > Bluetooth and tap the button. A list is shown, from which you must choose the device you wish to pair. Tap on it. You might need to enter a PIN, which should be supplied with the Bluetooth device 2 When a Bluetooth device is paired with your iPhone, it remains so until you unpair it. So if you switch off (for example) your Bluetooth speaker or keyboard, when you switch it…

Turning off in-app purchases on your iPhone Turning off in-app purchases is a straightforward process and could avoid your kids running up a huge bill without you knowing about it. Here’s how to set up the iPhone’s restrictions to turn off in-app purchases and avoid this eventuality. 1 Go to Settings > General > Restrictions. Tap the Enable Restrictions link at the top, then enter and confirm a four-digit PIN. Make this code something memorable, as you’ll need it should you want to change your restrictions options in the future. 2 With restrictions enabled you can change several settings which can help with the security of your iPhone and apps. However, the one we are interested in for the moment is the option labelled In-App Purchases, which you can find…

Removing unwanted apps If you’re short of space on your iPhone, getting rid of apps, music and especially videos that are taking up too much room is an easy way to free up storage, and you can always download them again if you find you need them. 1 When you really need to free up some memory on your device or simply wish to delete some old files, you will need to follow these instructions. From the Home screen, open Settings and from the General link scroll down and tap on iPhone Storage. 2 This page contains a variety of information regarding the levels of used and free memory. Firstly notice the multi-coloured bar at the top of the screen. This shows how your memory use breaks down into four…